Quotes About Resilience

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Once victim, always victim - that's the law!

An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,In blast-beruffled plume.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

With fingers weary and worn,With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sat in unwomanly ragsPlying her needle and thread—Stitch! stitch! stitch!In poverty, hunger, and dirt.

Have no expectations except to be fiercely tempted to your last breath.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world;

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.

My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear.

Joe Louis once said, "Every fighter has a plan until they get hit.

Be tough … life is. In other words, there is no promise of a rose garden.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.